Novatek South Addition Mural
This mural measures 22 feet high by 200 feet long
FINISHED MURAL WITH NEW FAUX MARBLE FLOOR
Here is a section of the mural finished with the new floor.
REFLECTIONS
more floor, less mural
FINISHED FIRST SECTION
The mural is now finished. This is the first section.
FINISHED SECOND SECTION
All the highlights and shadows are now finished on the snow and all over the rest of the mural.
FINAL THIRD SECTION
We tried to capture the twilight time of day. I think we were successful.
FINISHED FOURTH SECTION
Even the tops of the trees indicate the last few moments early evening light.
FINISHED FIFTH SECTION
I like the way the shadow and light plays on the rocky Timpanogos slopes.
FINISHED SIXTH SECTION
Provo Canyon.
FINISHED SEVENTH SECTION
I love the way the shadows and light bring out the rock forms on Cascade Peak.
ELK CLOSE UP
I'm not really a wildlife painter, yet I feel pretty good about how this bull elk turned out.
EIGHTH SECTION
Squaw Peak (the one with the red scrub oak trees on it's slopes) is mosly in shadow, but with a sliver of light at the top.
FINISHED NINTH SECTION
The middle section of Squaw Peak.
SQUAW PEAK
THis looks so real, it's like you can walk right through it! Pick any door.
LAST SECTION
This shows Rock Canyon during the last few moments of evening light.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
COLOR CHANGE LOOKS MUCH BETTER!
For several weeks now, I've wanted to work more accurately on the foreground colors. I have been putting it off, waiting for a specific color I learned about when I took the Plein Air Workshop last August. The color is called GREEN GOLD. It is a beautiful color, a Medium Green with Yellow Ochre added to give it a rich quality. Green Gold is a natural green, more like the basic natural colors of grass, trees and under brush in mid-summer. This specific color would have short-cutted my color mixing by quite a lot, had the paint vendor sent it to me on time. I wasn't using the Cadmium Green much anyway. Now I have a use for it. Somehow two quarts of Green Gold were found at home under the bed behind the canned food storage. Neither one of us can figure out how the paint got there. We're clueless? I plan to put in a long day at the job site on Monday to reach a Benchmark in the mural painting process, then be ready to begin the next step (COLOR HARMONY) by Tuesday morning. That likely means I will have to forego any plein air painting that day.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
TODAY'S UPDATE
Timpanogos is looking more like a mountain. Man, I love what I do for a living! There is only one thing in life greater than painting pictures and that's serving others, making others happy by helping them with their needs. That's why being a dad or a grandpa or having good friends is great!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
THE LAST FEW DAYS
The past few days, we did quite a bit of painting on the foreground, bushes and trees. At this stage in the mural, our biggest concern is covering the various middle value colors in big mass shapes. Painting in detail is not the chief concern yet. After the basic block-in, in my training as a painter, it is important to work on nailing the colors and values in the middle first, before painting in the darkest and lightest values and colors. By the end of next week, we will have this stage in the mural painting process done, so we can begin focusing on color harmony. Yes, we are concerned about color harmony now, but in the next stage, it is even more important to adjust all colors, until they are all right on the money. This means, they are juxtaposed and painted in such a way that they sing together and feels like you can breathe pure fresh air. This is also the reason I have been plein air painting quite a lot lately.
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